here and there

musings of a wandering mind

Category: Typography

  • chop carry wood water

    Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. I’ve been learning how to do character animation in After Effects, and it’s tedious work, especially when you are getting started. I didn’t really feel ready to post it yet, so instead I made this, to remind myself to get back to working…

  • yeah, yeah

    I have this book of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Some of the standards are in it, but so are some stories I have never heard of. Take The Adventures of Chanticleer and Partlet, for example. It’s the story of two chickens who venture into the forest to eat nuts. *Spoilers coming.* They do some stuff, and…

  • right here right now

    Making something to post every day is not that hard in theory. I try to finish these pieces relatively quickly, just seeing what I can create in an allotted time. I have been playing around with timing too. It’s a new challenge every day. In the beginning, I would work on a piece during the…

  • Wintersquash: An Adventure in Type Design

    I’ve been wanting to create a typeface for ages. I remember in high school finding out that there was software for making fonts, but after realizing how much the software cost, I forgot about it and moved on to other things. Sometime last year I stumbled upon Glyphs and Glyphs Mini again, which was about…